Welcome to Blackpast

BlackPast - African American and Global African History

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable (1745-1818)
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(1865) The Texas Emancipation Proclamation
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Ernest Withers (1922-2007)
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Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

Explore Global African History

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1886- )
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Peter Sexford Magubane (1932- )
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Paul Rusesabagina (1954- )
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Partido de Independiente de Color (Cuba, 1908-1912)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Black musicians, Lisbon, Portugal, ca. 1522
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The Black Presence in Pre-20th Century Europe: A Hidden History
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U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962
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Fort Worth, Texas, Where the West and the South Meet: A Brief History of the City’s African American Community, 1849-2012
Kansas Runaway
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“Blazing a Path to Freedom: African Americans and Their White Allies in Bleeding Kansas”

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators